Airport security

Yes. The limit is 100ml.

It’s like saying “oh officer I was only 1 over the limit”, the limit is the limit.

That's not the point. The point is the rule is 100ml and the people enforcing the rules have to do so swiftly and easily. They can't be being asked to make judgement calls on whether a larger bottle contains 100ml, slightly more or slightly less.

I’ve been a frequent flyer (usually 2x a week (domestic, Europe and Ultra long haul) for nearly 20 years.
I’ve known for all that time that it’s containers of no more than 100ml. Very few airports have done away with it so I just work on that basis and never been caught out

What do you suggest then? Moving to a system of roughly/ballpark numbers? Just eyeballing containers?

Flying on A380 or not an extra .05 ml is unlikely to make a difference but if you're limiting liquids by numbers you need a line somewhere and there can't be wriggle room, otherwise you start to get "creep", or just inconsistences.

That's when the arguments would really start:

".....but last week your nice colleague let me take 110 ml through...where's your supervisor?"?

Fundamentally even the most frequent users of airport security get caught out occasionally, maybe by loading up bags in a rush or being caught out by airport rules.....it's a PITA when it happens but you have to accept it - no point in blaming security staff ot worse still thinking they've picked on you so they get to go home with a freebie..

Yeah no. Totally irrelevant.

Spot on!

We know what the rules are. And we know what they are for that’s why we obey them. The airports have these rules in response to a terrorist threat and if we want to fly we obey the rules.
In airports which still have the old scanners the container can’t be more than 100ml that’s it. It then follows that the liquid in the container will be 100ml or less.
I was caught out because I didn’t realise my cleanser bottle was 125ml, they took it out. I knew it was my mistake.

My local airport we can now carry 2L containers and liquid. However the last time I travelled the return airport still had the old liquid rules so I had to pack with that in mind which is annoying but it’s just the way it is.

The rules change during the year because the airport has upgraded their scanners. There isn’t a conspiracy to rob you of your half used bottle of expensive whatever it was

0.05 x the number of passengers (potentially circa 500 on an A380)? Possibly!

lt’s like taking an exam. If you fail by just 1% or 2%, you fail.

YABU, the rules quite clearly say that it’s 100ml been if it’s a bigger bottle that’s half empty, if you were so bothered by something being confiscated because it was expensive you would have checked and double checked.

And do you think 100.05ml makes any difference to anything?

It does get destroyed. There is no guarantee that what it says on the container label and the contents ate the same thing.

I was too stupid to read the rules and had to pay £11 quid to get my brand new bottle of Chanel No5 body spray back when I returned from my holiday. Now that is obscene.

It depends on the type of security scanners which the airport have.

Would you prefer to get blown out the sky with a bomb made from liquids. It was narrowly averted.

Somebody tried to blow up a shoe twenty years ago.

Perk of the job, keeping the good stuff. I think I’d have a little chuckle spraying something lovely I’d confiscated from an obnoxious traveller.

"OP, take no notice of the holier than thou lecturing posters. Everyone has messed up at security at least once, then they won't do that again!"

I admit, I have messed up at security - there was a bottle in my hand luggage that I had forgotten about. You know what I didn't do? Get "pissed off" (ops words) enough to write about it online. Or even do anything other than apologise to the security person, and then get on with my day once it was resolved.

The issue isn't that op messed up. The issue is that op refuses to acknowledge that and continues to blame the airport.

To add insult to injury, some airports allow you to store oversized liquids and collect on your return.

Yeah, I can just imagine all the staff heading home with armfuls of other people's half-used toiletries at the end of a shift!

Eh? 🤪 She said exactly what you said.

Fucking hell, is the sun not shining where you are?

I suspect it does get binned or destroyed. You seem to think she will have it for herself. Given it was half empty even less likely it would be used. She will have no idea what is in it.

Lol-ing at expensive bottle of oil pocketed by the staff, I very much doubt they kept half a bottle of oil, who would even know oil was expensive?

Yes, if you want to get on the plane you have to follow the rules, all of which are very easily available online (if your head isn’t so far up your bum you can’t access it).

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Entirely on you

Isn't it obvious that they wouldn't judge <100ml by just eyeballing bigger bottles?